UK intelligence collusion with Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya ‘exposed’

The UK’s intelligence-sharing relationship with Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan regime before its collapse last year has come under new scrutiny amid claims MI5 handed on defectors’ details and MI6 colluded in an operation to ensnare Islamic extremists.

Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (Picture: Reuters)

According to the Mail on Sunday, agents for the British Secret Service supplied confidential information to their Libyan counterparts about people who had fled Gaddafi.

And the Sunday Telegraph claims that MI6 worked in conjunction with Libya to set up a radical mosque in a western European city to lure in al-Qaida terrorists.

Both stories are the result of previously unreleased classified documents in Libyan archives being disclosed by the new government in Tripoli.

The Home Office said it would ‘take seriously’ any allegations against the security services.